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Major-General Sir John Robert Stuart Mackenzie Shea
watercolour, watercolour
Accession Number

NAM.2018-11-1-1-1

Description

Caricature of Major-General (later General Sir) John Robert Stuart Mackenzie Shea (1869-1966), 1917 (c) Watercolour, signed lower right in monogram ‘FWH’, 1917 (c). Full-length in general officer’s service dress, wearing a monocle. Shea was educated at Sedbergh School and Sandhurst; commissioned into the Royal Irish Regiment 1888; Lt, 15th Lancers, Indian Army, 1891; served in the Boer War 1900-1902; served on the Western Front and Palestine, including commanding 60th Division under Gen Edmund Allenby; GOC, Central Provinces District, 1921-1923; ADC General to HM King George V, 1924-1928; Adjutant-General in India, 1924-1928; promoted full general, 1926; GOC, Eastern Command in India, 1928-1932; retired 1932; prominent in scouting movement in India and UK. Associated with World War One, Egypt and Palestine (1914-1918).

Campaigns

World War One, Egypt and Palestine (1914-1918)

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